[link] The second Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CLIHC 2005

The second Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2005, will be a forum for the exchange of ideas, developments and research findings in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

The main goal of the conference is to foster communication and collaboration among HCI researchers and professionals from countries in Latin America and to consolidate the presence of the Latin American HCI community abroad. For this, we will encourage members of other communities to come to the conference, and discuss strategies for Latin Americans to have a wider participation internationally.

CLIHC 2005 will be the meeting place for researchers and practitioners from industry and academia. Researchers and practitioners throughout Latin America are strongly encouraged to participate.

CLIHC 2005 will take place in Cuernavaca, México on October 23-26, 2005. You are cordially invited to submit HCI-related work in any of the categories for participation.

Cuernavaca is approximately 40 miles south of Mexico City but worlds apart in pace. At approximately 5,000 feet in altitude, it is some 2,500 feet lower and thus warmer. Magnificent views of the western flank of Popocatepetl Volcano can be seen on clear days.(leer más...)

The author is the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium and a principal research scientist at the Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge MA 02139 U.S.A. http://www.w3.org

Draft response to invitation to publish in IEEE Computer special issue of October 1996. The special issue was I think later abandoned.

Abstract

The World Wide Web was designed originally as an interactive world of shared information through which people could communicate with each other and with machines. Since its inception in 1989 it has grown initially as a medium for the broadcast of read-only material from heavily loaded corporate servers to the mass of Internet connected consumers. Recent commercial interest its use within the organization under the "Intranet" buzzword takes it into the domain of smaller, closed, groups, in which greater trust allows more interaction. In the future we look toward the web becoming a tool for even smaller groups, families, and personal information systems. Other interesting developments would be the increasingly interactive nature of the interface to the user, and the increasing use of machine-readable information with defined semantics allowing more advanced machine processing of global information, including machine-readable signed assertions.

Introduction

This paper represents the personal views of the author, not those of the World Wide Web Consortium members, nor of host institutes.

This paper gives an overview of the history, the current state, and possible future directions for the World Wide Web. The Web is simply defined as the universe of global network-accessible information. It is an abstract space with which people can interact, and is currently chiefly populated by interlinked pages of text, images and animations, with occasional sounds, three dimensional worlds, and videos. Its existence marks the end of an era of frustrating and debilitating incompatibilities between computer systems. The explosion of advisability and the potential social and economical impact has not passed unnoticed by a much larger community than has previously used computers. The commercial potential in the system has driven a rapid pace of development of new features, making the maintenance of the global interoperability which the Web brought a continuous task for all concerned. At the same time, it highlights a number of research areas whose solutions will become more and more pressing, which we will only be able to mention in passing in this paper. Let us start, though, as promised, with a mention of the original goals of the project, conceived as it was as an answer to the author's personal need, and the perceived needs of the organization and larger communities of scientists and engineers, and the world in general. (leer más...)